Display-bin.



P. F. WEAR.

DISPLAY BIN.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 29, 1909.

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DISPLAY-BIN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it'known that I, FRANK F. WEAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Display-Bins, of which the following is a specification.

' The object of the present invention is to provide an im roved display bin for contaiuing tea, coffee, or salable material 'of any kind in which it is important that the material should be displayed in an attractive manner, and-easily inspected by an intending purchaser, while at the same time preserved from admixture with foreign particles and undue exposure to dust. The bin is es ecia'llyzdesigned for the reception and (lisp ay of tea or coffee, as it permits of these substances being readily inspected without opening the bin, and at the sametime preserves them in a perfectly clean and sanitary condition. y

in the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section of a receptacle containing display bins constructed in ac-' cordance with my invention and especially. adapted for displaying coffee; Fig. 2 is a horizontal section'of the same on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3, showing one of the bins partly withdrawn; Fig. 3 is a rear view of the same upon a reduced scale.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates a base mounted upon legs 2. Supported upon the rear side of said base are vertical frame pieces 3, preferably of wood, and, secured to said frame pieces, are the rear vertical edges of ends f and a. artition 5. front edges of said ends 4 and partitions 5isa front side 6, and supported upon said front side", the ends 5 the partition 5, and the rear frame pieces 3, is .a top 7.; Said ends, partition, front side and top are allmade of glass,

, secured to each otherby cement, thus forming a closed receptacle which is ogen to inspection at top, front, and. sides. he space within said receptacle is divided by the par- .tition 5 into two chambers, but it is to be understood that, in general, there are two or more partitions, correspondingly dividing the-receptacle into three or more chambers.

In each chamber-there is detachably supported a bin 8, open at the .to The bottom 9, sides 10, and front 11 said bin are made of suitable metal, and its sides are, at

their rear edges, bent into flanges 12, which Specification oi Letters Patent.

Secured to the Patented Iii-fay 25, 1909.

Application filed January 29, 1909. Serial No. 75,068.-

are secured to vertical cleats 13. The real side 14 of the bin, to about one-half of its height, is also formed of metal, reinforced by a wooden backing 15. To the top of the part of the back so formed there is hinged, as shown 'at 16 a lower door 17, the upper edge of which closes against a cleat 18 extending horizontally across the rear of the bin at about the level of its top, andto the upper edge of said horizontal cleat 18 is also hinged, as shown at 19, an upper door 20, which closes against a cleat 21. extending across between the frame pieces 3, close to the top of the receptacle. When the pin is inserted in position, it slides between the vertical edges of. the vertical frame pieces 3, and is then sea cured by means of screws 22 screwed to said frame pieces through the vertical cleats 13.

The bin is of such dimensions that, when.

in position, asshown at the right hand side of Fig. 2, there is left a narrow space 23 in the front and at each side between the bin and the corresponding compartment of the receptacle, which space is filled with coffee, or other salable product of the same character as that within the bin itself. Extending obliquely downward. and forward from the cleat 18, and its edges being secured to the sides of the bin is a partition 25, the object of which is to support the cofiee or'other material in the bin forward or away from'the lower opening, so that, while the nppersurface of the coffee in the front art of the bin may be at a considerable heig t, as shown in dotted lines at 26, that in the rear part of the bin slopes downwardl rearwardly from the rear and front edge, of said. partition, as shown at 27. This latter surface remainssubstantially the same whatever be the level of the surface of the coffee in the front part of the bin until the coffee has been exhausted to a level below the rear front edge of said partition. Consequently, although the bin may be full, or nearly full, of coffee, yetthe surface of the coffee to which the scoop is to be applied for removing the'same remains substantially uniform until the greater oart of the coffee has been removed from the in.

The front and rear inner surfaces of the biiif extend downward with rounded surfaces to. the bottom of the bin to avoid angular one here, the object being to prevent coffee or other material lod ing in said corners for so 1011 a time as to become stale before being sold p I claim 1 A display bin having a topside, a front side, end sides, and a partition, all of glass, l and forming a receptacle having corn artments open to inspection at the top, h'ont and ends, a bin removably supported in each compartment, open at the top, said cabinet having means for spacing the bin from the sides of the cabinet to form display chain bers, whereby said spaces may be filled with a comparatively small quantity of the com- I modity to be displayed, the front and rear I inner walls of the bin being continued with rounded surfaces to the bottom thereof to l avoid angular bottom corners, said bin having in its rear side an opening, a door for closing said opening, and a partition extending from said rear side immediately above said opening and obliquely downward therefrom to a point above the bottom of the compartment, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 4

FRANK F. WEAR. Witnesses:

FRANCIS M. WRIGHT, D. B. RICHARDS. 

